Has Anyone Read The Handmaids Tale By Margret Atwood?
I am looking for a summary of this book cause I don't yet understand it!
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In a nutshell, it is a society where married women who cannot have babies bring in young girls for a certain amount of time for their husbands to impregnate. The young girls (handmaids) remain with the couple until the birth, but the wives treat the girls poorly. After the birth, nothing is allowed to be said as to whom got pregnant and had the baby, it is accepted that it was the wife, and only the wife, and the girl is sent away. The book centers around one particular handmail named Offred.
It is set in the future, in the Republic of Gilead, formerly the U.S, normal ideals have been carried to extremes in the monotheocratic government. The resulting society is a feminist's nightmare: Women are strictly controlled, unable to have jobs or money and assigned to various classes: The chaste, childless Wives; the housekeeping Marthas; and the reproductive Handmaids, who turn their offspring over to the "morally fit" Wives. The tale is told by Offred the Handmaid, who recalls the past and tells how the chilling society came to be.
It is set in the future, in the Republic of Gilead, formerly the U.S, normal ideals have been carried to extremes in the monotheocratic government. The resulting society is a feminist's nightmare: Women are strictly controlled, unable to have jobs or money and assigned to various classes: The chaste, childless Wives; the housekeeping Marthas; and the reproductive Handmaids, who turn their offspring over to the "morally fit" Wives. The tale is told by Offred the Handmaid, who recalls the past and tells how the chilling society came to be.
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